This past week and a half we did Christmas with my dad's extended family in Nebraska and then when we got back, Isaac and I headed to Iowa City for Christmas with the Hintons. Howard (Isaac's dad) and I are in a weight loss competition, so I was glad to hear that Lynn (Isaac's mom) made him a couple batches of fudge. Unfortunately, it looked so good that I wanted to try it, and I ended up loving it so much I'm sure I ate more than Howard. I guess that effort to trip him up backfired.
The last two full days we've been in the van with my Iowa family--and my brother. Glory sakes, heaven spare me. I've wanted to kill him less this year than in the past few years, but he can still get on my nerves faster than any other human being I know. I don't even know how his brain works to think up some of the things he does. I guess we're just wired differently. VERY differently.
We stopped in Tennessee last night and visited with some family that we don't get to see very often. It was fun to get to hang out with them! The boys (Isaac and Ike) are on a weightlifting kick right now so they were super excited to learn there was an in-home gym. They spend at least an hour seeing how much weight they could bench, among other things.
Courtney and I lifted a little bit too, but not for long.
While we were there, Isaac and I slept on an air mattress upstairs. Nobody realized it had a small leak in it and so midway through the night I went to roll over and just about fell off because so much air had escaped. I felt like I was sleeping on a waterbed without any outer boundaries. Mom came up to wake me up in the morning and said that both Isaac and I were sleeping with our backs/butts on the ground and our legs were up in the air. And apparently when I got out of the bed Isaac sunk to the ground and the bed kind of caved in around him. Poor guy.
Today we were in the van for another eleven hours and thankfully nobody killed Ike. Sometimes he makes it his personal mission to see how many people he can get riled up before we gang up and beat him (not literally). He's pretty good at getting to the edge of everyone's patience.
We arrived in Orlando at 1:00am and the plan is to make our way down to Miami tomorrow. Then we get on the cruise ship and will be floating in the ocean for the next five days. Ahhhh... Hopefully it will be relaxing. I'm looking forward to it because not only is it a vacation, it will kind of be like a honeymoon for Isaac and I since.
The plan had been to go on one in August this year when he had a break in his school schedule; however, the appearance of the cancer prevented us from going anywhere and doing anything, so this is kind of like our fake honeymoon--but we'll have guests!
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